Eray is the Alstadt Lord Mark Professor and Chairperson of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A & B. Previously, he was the Christenson Chair in Renewable Energy and Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Eray received B.S. degrees in chemical engineering and materials science from U. C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Houston. After a postdoc at Bell Labs, he joined the chemical engineering department at U.C. Santa Barbara and rose through the ranks to become a professor and vice chairman of the department before moving to UMN. His research revolves around thin film deposition, plasma processing, and materials synthesis and characterization for solar cells. Eray has published over 230 articles cited over 20,000 times but only some of those publications are worth reading. In recognition of his research, he has received the Peter Mark Award and the Plasma Prize from the American Vacuum Society (AVS), the Norman Hackerman Young Author Award of the Electrochemical Society, the National Young Investigator Award of the NSF, and the Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. He is a Fellow of the AVS. He is no longer eligible for awards with “Young” in the title.
Talk Title: The Challenges of mandated Open Access Publishing: An Editor’s Viewpoint